{"id":62086,"date":"2012-11-27T13:49:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T13:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=62086"},"modified":"2012-11-27T13:54:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T13:54:32","slug":"julian-assanges-new-book-an-exercise-in-dystopian-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/julian-assanges-new-book-an-exercise-in-dystopian-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange&#8217;s New Book An Exercise In Dystopian Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks founder&#8217;s Cypherpunks warns tool he relies on and used to make his name is &#8216;global surveillance industry&#8217; target.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/julian-assanges-new-book-an-exercise-in-dystopian-musings\/or-book-going-rouge\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62088\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-62088\" title=\"OR Book Going Rouge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Assange_Cypherpunks_HiRes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Assange_Cypherpunks_HiRes.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Assange_Cypherpunks_HiRes-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Julian+Assange&amp;x=3&amp;y=5\">Julian Assange<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s new book is not a manifesto, he writes in its introduction \u2013 &#8220;There is no time for that&#8221;. Instead the short volume, entitled\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbooks.com\/catalog\/cypherpunks\/\">Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet<\/a>\u00a0and published on Monday, is intended to be what the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Wikileaks&amp;x=9&amp;y=0\">Wikileaks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0founder calls &#8220;a watchman&#8217;s shout in the night&#8221;, warning of an imminent threat to all civilisation from &#8220;the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen&#8221; \u2013 the web.&#8221; the Guardian reports.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2012\/nov\/26\/julian-asaange-paranoia-surveillance\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since its inception in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in what is sure to be a wave-making new book, Assange brings together a small group of cutting-edge thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyber-space to discuss whether electronic communications will emancipate or enslave us. Among the topics addressed are: Do Facebook and Google constitute &#8220;the greatest surveillance machine that ever existed,&#8221; perpetually tracking our location, our contacts and our lives? Far from being victims of that surveillance, are most of us willing collaborators? Are there legitimate forms of surveillance, for instance in relation to the &#8220;Four Horsemen of the Infopocalypse&#8221; (money laundering, drugs, terrorism and pornography)? And do we have the ability, through conscious action and technological savvy, to resist this tide and secure a world where freedom is something which the Internet helps bring about?<\/p>\n<p>The harassment of WikiLeaks and other Internet activists, together with attempts to introduce anti-file sharing legislation such as SOPA and ACTA, indicate that the politics of the Internet have reached a crossroads. In one direction lies a future that guarantees, in the watchwords of the cypherpunks, &#8220;privacy for the weak and transparency for the powerful&#8221;; in the other lies an Internet that allows government and large corporations to discover ever more about internet users while hiding their own activities. Assange and his co-discussants unpick the complex issues surrounding this crucial choice with clarity and engaging enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>Publication November 2012 \u2022 192 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN 978-1-939293-00-8 \u2022 Ebook ISBN 978-1-939293-01-5<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbooks.com\/catalog\/cypherpunks\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Paperback: $16\/\u00a311<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":45843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[6716,6715],"class_list":["post-62086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","tag-cypherpunks-freedom-and-the-future-of-the-internet","tag-julian-assanges-new-book"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Julian Assange&#039;s New Book An Exercise In Dystopian Musings - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/julian-assanges-new-book-an-exercise-in-dystopian-musings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Julian Assange&#039;s New Book An Exercise In Dystopian Musings - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/julian-assanges-new-book-an-exercise-in-dystopian-musings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-11-27T13:49:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-11-27T13:54:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Julian-Assange-008.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"460\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"276\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/julian-assanges-new-book-an-exercise-in-dystopian-musings\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/julian-assanges-new-book-an-exercise-in-dystopian-musings\/\",\"name\":\"Julian Assange's New Book An Exercise In Dystopian Musings - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/julian-assanges-new-book-an-exercise-in-dystopian-musings\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/julian-assanges-new-book-an-exercise-in-dystopian-musings\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Julian-Assange-008.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-11-27T13:49:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-11-27T13:54:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/julian-assanges-new-book-an-exercise-in-dystopian-musings\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/julian-assanges-new-book-an-exercise-in-dystopian-musings\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/julian-assanges-new-book-an-exercise-in-dystopian-musings\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Julian-Assange-008.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Julian-Assange-008.jpg\",\"width\":\"460\",\"height\":\"276\",\"caption\":\"Julian Assange outside the high court last year. 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